Skyline Heights, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sioux Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 57107. The Survey maps it on the Sioux Falls West quadrangle.

Skyline Heights within Minnehaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Sioux Falls West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

79,863 words on this township

History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Containing an Account of Its Settlements, Growth, Development and Resources ... Synopsis of Public Records, Biographical Sketches .., published 1899 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sioux Falls City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sioux Falls City - 79,863 words.

Fires near this place

109 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Skyline Heights between 1999 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Debris and open burning	14
Fireworks	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PETERSON
25 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FULTON TREE LINE FIRE
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I 90
6 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	N. KIWANIS FIRE
2 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	KON THORSTENSON
6 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Skyline Heights: 6 producers, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Concrete Materials Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Concrete Materials Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quartzite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Quartzite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Beckman Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bill Gage Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Friessen Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Friessens West Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Martin Sand and Gravel Pit.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Reynolds Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Minnehaha County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Swanson's Tracts	0.8 miles	9
Martindale Addition	1.3 miles	9
Meadow View Addition	2.8 miles	9
Froelich Addition	2.9 miles	9
Reppert Addition	2.9 miles	9
Renner	3.2 miles	8
Norton Acres	3.7 miles	9
Ellis Corner	3.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264942. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.